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A Day in the Life

The Executive Assistant to the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) provides strategic high-impact executive support within a large global medical device organization focused on Structural Heart therapies. This role goes beyond traditional administrative support and functions as an extension of the CMOdriving operational rigor enabling clinical and medical strategy execution and ensuring seamless coordination across global clinical regulatory R&D quality and commercial organizations.

The ideal candidate brings deep experience supporting senior medical or R&D leadership in complex highly regulated environments and demonstrates exceptional judgment discretion and executive presence.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Executive Partnership

• Serve as a trusted thought partner and operational extension of the CMO
• Anticipate priorities risks and opportunities across clinical medical affairs and regulatory initiatives
• Independently manage competing demands to protect and optimize executive focus

Executive Calendar & Priority Management

• Own the CMOs complex global calendar aligning time with enterprise and franchise-level priorities
• Proactively resolve conflicts sequence engagements and ensure preparedness for critical decision-making forums
• Gatekeep requests and communications with a strong understanding of organizational dynamics

Structural Heart Leadership & Governance Support

• Coordinate leadership team meetings operating reviews and governance forums across Structural Heart
• Prepare high-quality briefing materials executive summaries and decision documents
• Track strategic initiatives action items and cross-functional commitments to ensure follow-through

Clinical Medical Affairs & Regulatory Enablement

• Support administrative and operational aspects of clinical development and medical affairs activities
• Coordinate preparation of materials for advisory boards investigator meetings regulatory interactions and audits
• Maintain structured oversight of confidential clinical medical and regulatory documentation
• (This role does not perform regulatory decision-making but enables execution and compliance readiness.)

Cross-Functional & Global Coordination

• Act as a central coordination point between the CMO and global teams including:
  • Clinical Development
  • Medical Affairs
  • Regulatory Affairs
  • R&D / Engineering
  • Quality & Compliance
  • Commercial & Market Access
• Navigate matrixed organizations and align stakeholders across regions and time zones

Communication & Executive Messaging

• Draft edit and manage executive-level communications presentations and internal updates
• Ensure clarity consistency and alignment with corporate and franchise strategy
• Handle sensitive communications with diplomacy and professionalism

Travel Logistics & Executive Operations

• Manage complex global travel logistics including international itineraries
• Oversee expense management and administrative compliance
• Anticipate and mitigate logistical challenges to ensure continuity of executive operations

Confidentiality Compliance & Risk Management

• Handle highly sensitive information related to clinical data physician relationships and regulatory strategy
• Maintain strict confidentiality and adhere to corporate legal and healthcare compliance requirements
• Serve as a role model for integrity discretion and professionalism

Must Have; Minimum requirements

To be considered for this role please ensure the minimum requirements are evident in your applicant profile.

• Minimum 6 years of experience supporting senior executives preferably:
• CMO Chief Scientific Officer or R&D leadership
• Large medical device biotech or pharmaceutical organizations
• High School Diploma or equivalent

Nice To Have

• 8 -10 years experience in cardiovascular interventional cardiology or Structural Heart strongly preferred
• Familiarity with Structural Heart therapies (e.g. TAVR TMVR transcatheter repair/replacement technologies)
• Experience supporting clinical trials medical affairs or regulatory interactions
• Exposure to global product lifecycle management in MedTech

Leadership Attributes

• Executive presence with confidence interacting at Board and ELT levels
• Highly proactive solutions-oriented and detail-driven
• Trusted partner who balances urgency with precision
• Calm resilient and adaptable under pressure

Core Competencies

• Exceptional executive-level judgment and organizational agility
• Strong business and clinical acumen with ability to synthesize complex information
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to operate autonomously in a fast-paced matrixed global environment
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft 365 and executive collaboration tools

For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.

U.S. Work Authorization & Sponsorship

At Medtronic we are committed to fostering an environment where employees can thrive and make a meaningful alignment with our enterprise-wide workforce planning approach U.S. work authorization sponsorship (H-1B TN J etc.) is offered exclusively for Principal-level roles and above where specialized expertise aligns with long-term business needs. Roles below the Principal level require candidates to possess unrestricted U.S. work authorization at the time of hire and for the duration of employment.

Join us in our mission to alleviate pain restore health and extend lifewhere your unique background and perspective are valued.

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits resources and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20 hours per week: Health Dental and vision insuranceHealth Savings AccountHealthcare Flexible Spending AccountLife insurance Long-term disability leaveDependent daycare spending accountTuition assistance/reimbursement andSimple Steps (global well-being program).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees:Incentive plans 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and matchShort-term disabilityPaid time offPaid holidaysEmployee Stock Purchase PlanEmployee Assistance ProgramNon-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums) andCapital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above or subject to IRS earning minimums).

Regular employees are those who are not temporary such as interns. Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time as required under applicable state law and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.

Further details are available at the link below:

Medtronic benefits and compensation plans

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission to alleviate pain restore health and extend life unites a global team of 95000 passionate people.
We are engineers at heart putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab to the factory floor to the conference room every one of us experiments creates builds improves and solves. We have the talent diverse perspectives and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

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It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age color national origin citizenship status physical or mental disability race religion creed gender sex sexual orientation gender identity and/or expression genetic information marital status status with regard to public assistance veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local addition Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.